“Any place you love is the world to you.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il principe felice
Origine: The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese
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“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Origine: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde libro The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Origine: The Critic as Artist
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Lord Goring, Act III.
Variante: The only possible society is oneself.
Origine: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde Una donna senza importanza
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il fantasma di Canterville
Origine: The Canterville Ghost
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variante: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray